[CS-FSLUG] Mounted filesystem permissions

[Robert Wohlfarth]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Dave & Ella McMullen <DavidM at hisfeet.net>wrote:

> Do you need to have that partition as vfat? vfat partitions don't do well
> with permissions.
> .            Dave McMullen
>
>
> David McGlone wrote:
> > I have an extra partition on my computer that I use for a personal web
> > server
> > to do PHP development and I am having a problem changing permissions on
> > files
> > on that partition.
> >
> > Here's how I have this partition set up:
> > fstab entry:
> >
> > /dev/sda5  /home/david/www  vfat  user,auto  0  0
>

VFAT permissions are fixed when you mount the partition. See the man page
for "mount". You will need the umask, dmask, and/or fmask options under FAT.
Add these to your fstab:

/dev/sda5  /home/david/www  vfat  user,auto,umask=777  0  0

-- 
Robert Wohlfarth
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